Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson
Turned International Business Machines (IBM) into a force with which to be reckoned while chairman and CEO from 1914 until 1956.
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 February 1874
CityDayton, OH
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Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure / or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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God made man of the dust of the earth and man makes a god of the dust of the earth
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All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
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Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
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What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
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If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.
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Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.
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"If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."
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It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
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This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
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The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.
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Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.